Try these websites!

Our list of recommended websites continues to grow!  Websites added in the past few months include:

ABYZ News Links - Worldwide online newspapers and media sources.
Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts – Resources for grant seekers
Boston Foundation - Information for grant seekers and donors
Better Business Bureau - Research information on over 2.5 million organizations
EarthTrends - Environmental database
Easy School Search - Public and private school data
Easy2DIY.com: Home Improvement and Home Repair Help
Digital Libraries - Subject-specific digital libraries in a wide variety of areas
gethuman 500 database - How to reach humans on phone customer service lines
How to Write a Term Paper
jBooks.com – The Online Jewish Book Community
Massachusetts Attorney General: Consumer Protection
MindZone - For teens, information on mental health issues
Mortgage Professor’s Website - Information on selecting a mortgage
Newton Public Schools
Newton Reads - Our blog with reading suggestions
On This Day in History
Online Education Database - Reviews of online education programs
Open-Access Eprint Archives in Science, Technology & Medicine
PandemicFlu.gov - U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information
Poetry Tool - Search for poems by category, occasion, title or first line
ScienceDaily - Research news in science, technology & medicine
Social Science Data Resources - Online statistical resources
Stateline.org - News & features about politics and social policy, focusing on state government
Trustees of Reservations - Land conservation issues and information on Trustees properties
World History Matters - Primary sources for world history and women’s studies
yourDictionary.com - Dictionaries, grammars, and other resources for hundreds of languages

Need Gift Ideas?

See our 7th annual gift book list, Books Librarians Give!

Our 2005 gift book list can be found here.

Do you have holiday gift favorites?  Click here to comment and add your own suggestions!

Looking for information on current events?

There are two new Special Reports from NewsBank Newspapers (Home Access | In Library Access):

People in the News – The U.N. Secretary General

Film and Filmmaking Around the World

NewsBank’s Special Reports contain newspaper articles, background information, links to useful websites, and other resources on topics of current interest.  New information is added daily.  The full collection of Special Reports can be found here.

2006 Year in Review, from NewsBank

The latest Special Report from NewsBank Newspapers (Home Access | In Library Access) is The Year in Review–2006, with articles, background information, and images of the most important issues, events, and people of 2006.

Other recent Special Reports include:

Iraq
World Environment

NPR Transcripts & Audio Files in Academic OneFile

Our database Academic OneFile  ( Home Access | In Library Access ) has added transcripts and audio files from National Public Radio (NPR) programs to its database.  When you search in OneFile, you will find the transcripts under the Multimedia tab at the top of the results page.  

Programs included are All Things Considered, Day to Day, Morning Edition, News & Notes, Talk of the Nation, Talk of the Nation Science Friday, Weekend All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition Saturday.

If your library is not part of the Minuteman network but you live in Massachusetts, most Massachusetts library cards will give you access to the database here (the Academic OneFile database with NPR transcripts is one of the magazine and newspaper article databases).

If you do not have a Massachusetts library card, check with your local library to find out if you have access to this database or something similar.  You may be surprised at all that is available to you with a library card!

New bibliographies

We’ve added several new bibliographies to our website:

Recent Reference Acquisitions September 2006, October 2006 and November 2006
(the latest list of reference acquisitions can always be found here)

Adoption Awareness

The State of Maine on My Mind

Food Allergy Cookbooks for You

Health Care Reform for Massachusetts Residents

Teen Opinions Wanted!

Newton Free Library’s new Teen Advisory Board (TAB) needs you! Would you like to help plan exciting, interesting programs and activities for teens in the library? Or help design a new teen library space on the 2nd floor? Or be a contributor to an active Newton Free Library teen webpage? If so, and you are in grades 6-12, then please join our newly-formed TAB!

The next meeting is on Thursday, December 7th from 5-6 p.m. on the second floor, with free pizza and drinks.

For further details, click here.